[Vwdiesel] 30 ft-lb glow plugs?

[maded]

I CONCUR.  30 INCH pounds is probably what it should be.  Several of the
torque's in Bentley are too high, in my opinion.  Like those of the water
pump halves.


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Ed Lowe, Seattle
82 Westy diesel upgrading to 1.9td
85 Golf diesel
92 Cabrio
97 Passat Tdi
> From: LBaird119 at aol.com
> Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2003 00:04:39 EST
> To: vwdiesel at vwfans.com
> Subject: Re: [Vwdiesel] 30 ft-lb glow plugs?
>
>> Does everyone tighten their glow plugs to 30 ft-lbs?
>
> Hand tighten snug with a 12mm wrench is all I do.  It's a tapered seat
> seal so shouldn't take all that much. Doesn't seem like tapered seat
> spark plugs call for that much torque even, and they're steel to steel.
> Loren
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